RIP: Joe Franklin

The still hard-working talk show pioneer was 88

How do you properly pay tribute to a New York TV talk show pioneer? For starters, you tell it like it was.

Here’s the lede sentence from James Barron’s New York Times obit:

Joe Franklin, who became a New York institution by presiding over one of the most compellingly low-rent television programs in history, one that even he acknowledged was an oddly long-running parade of has-beens and yet-to-bes interrupted from time to time by surprisingly famous guests, died on Saturday in a hospice in Manhattan.

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